Asia-Pacific forestry information

2013

06.24

On guard: protecting wildlife in a heavily hunted Brazilian forest

24 June 2013, Mongabay news - The Brazilian government offers tax relief to landowners who set aside areas for preservation. While this has expanded the system of private ecological reserves considerably, the Brazilian government currently lacks funding to enforce the protection of these lands from threats such as hunting...

2013

06.13

Preliminary Report on UN-REDD Panama Programme Rupture Offers

13 June 2013, IISD news - The preliminary report by a team investigating the withdrawal of the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP) from Panamas National REDD+ Programme has been delivered to the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in...

2013

06.24

FSC timber sales grow in Europe and North America

24 June 2013, Ttjonline news - The green building sector has driven growth in FSC-certified sawn timber and wood product sales in Europe and North America in the past 12 months, according to a major new report from FSC International. FSCs Global Market Survey says secondary wood processors/manufacturers were seeing the greatest...

2013

06.06

Australian scientists want forests protected

6 June 2013, Yahoo news - A group of scientists has called on the Barnett Government to better protect South West forests amid warnings they are increasingly under pressure and at risk of ecological collapse. More than 30 Australian scientists have expressed alarm about the state of the forests ahead of the States next 10-year...

2013

06.05

Forests to cover 20pc land in Bangladesh in 2 years

5 June 2013, Bdnews24 news - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government planned to extend the nation’s forest to cover 20 percent of the country’s land area within two years. The Prime Minister said this on Wednesday while inaugurating a three-month-long Tree Plantation Campaign and a month-long Tree...

2013

06.13

Peru opens deforestation data to the public, shows drop in Amazon

13 June 2013, Mongabay news - Peru has made its comprehensive deforestation data available to the public. The data shows that while more than 100,000 hectares have been cleared in the Peruvian Amazon on annual basis since 2005, the rate of clearing has slowed in recent years. Between 2009 and 2010, some 108,571 ha of forest...

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